We perform an experimental study of complexity to assess its effect on trading behavior, price volatility, liquidity, and trade efficiency. Subjects were asked to deduce the value of a particular asset from information they were given about the composition and price of several portfolios. Following that, subjects traded with each other anonymously in a well-defined, simple bargaining process. P...

In this examination of the management of organisational knowledge assets, a distinction is made between Information Management and Knowledge Management, presented as the management of the organisational environment within which intellectual assets are fostered and encouraged. This supportive environment calls for computer systems that connect employees and facilitate the retrieval and transfer ...

working with rural poverty, institutional analysis needs to be focused as closely as possible on poor rural people. To carry out an analysis of the institutions concerned with and affecting poverty and the poor, a first critical step is to identify who the poor are and differentiate as clearly as possible different groups within the overall category of “the poor”, as these distinct groups need ...

This paper examines how differences in the bargaining power of husband and wife affect the distribution of consumption expenditures in rural Bangladeshi households. Two alternative measures of assets are used: current assets and the value of assets brought to marriage. Results show that both assets at marriage and current assets are strongly determined by the human capital of husband and wife a...

Open source has become the de facto community process for the Internet. The success of this process has primarily been in software development, starting with its roots in Linux (http://www.linux.org/), and has spread to hundreds of diverse projects ranging from designing a better intravenous system for third world patients (http://www.thinkcycle.org/), improving cooking recipes (http://www.ibib...

The influence of property, plant and equipment (Fixed Assets) and the quality of infrastructure on return was analyzed in the hospitality industry in emerging markets. The analysis unit was Colombia, a member of the CIVETS emerging market group. Financial healthwas determined by the relationships among return on fixed assets ratio,fixed assets net worth and fixed assets turnover ratios. Besides...

Hosik Lee,1 Young-Woo Son,1 Noejung Park,2 Seungwu Han,3 and Jaejun Yu1,* 1School of Physics and Center for Strongly Correlated Materials Research, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea 2Department of Applied Physics, Dankook University, Seoul 140-714, Korea 3Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea Received 23 May 2005; revised manuscript received 14 Septem...

A comprehensive and feasible model that delineates the interrelationships between knowledge assets and knowledge creation processes has not been explored in the literature. This study aims to fill this void. Unlike previous research, this study investigates the interrelations among four categories of knowledge assets and four knowledge creation processes — socialization, externalization, combin...